Tripoli rejects court's verdict as an affront

Share via

Libya denounced the rejection of the Lockerbie appeal and said that it would consider Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the convicted bomber, a political hostage if he was not released.

"The verdict confirms once again that the US and Britain have imposed their sway on the court to enforce a political verdict," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement. "The verdict is a serious affront and a clear condemnation of the Scottish judiciary which we expected to pronounce a fair judgment in favour of the Libyan citizen."

Before the original trial Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, promised to accept the